Layton Brothers: My boss might be a killer

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Bruceski: Aug 21, 2007; The tools of a hero mean nothing without a solid core.

My completely-evidenceless theory:
The first shot on stage was the lethal one, Bray switched guns. The Destiny mimicked the scream and hit Bray. Bray and Destiny are working together to frame Roscoe.

# ¿ Aug 4, 2015 21:33

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 10:27

Bruceski: Aug 21, 2007; The tools of a hero mean nothing without a solid core.

John Lee posted:

...Is he Johnny Depp?

Johnny Dapper going by that suit.

# ¿ Aug 13, 2015 22:35

Bruceski: Aug 21, 2007; The tools of a hero mean nothing without a solid core.

It's solved, guess we can go home now.

# ¿ Aug 18, 2015 22:54

Bruceski: Aug 21, 2007; The tools of a hero mean nothing without a solid core.

Discendo Vox posted:

I'm still confused about how the squib went off before she was shot, though. Why include that detail if it was wrong? Why would Strapping feel like he needed to frame someone for this?

She was shot in the squib. Apparently blood and fake blood mix like oil and water.

# ¿ Aug 23, 2015 00:09

Bruceski: Aug 21, 2007; The tools of a hero mean nothing without a solid core.

I was wondering if Alfendi might get the other personality from his mother, but I don't think there's anyone in the Layton games who isn't female, over the age of 12, not related to Layton, and alive. Kinda puts a damper on figuring it out.

# ¿ Aug 23, 2015 02:31

Bruceski: Aug 21, 2007; The tools of a hero mean nothing without a solid core.

alcharagia posted:

Hershel Layton reproduces by budding.

He releases spores every time he solves a puzzle.

# ¿ Aug 23, 2015 02:33

Bruceski: Aug 21, 2007; The tools of a hero mean nothing without a solid core.

Hobgoblin2099 posted:

This sounds like something that could conceivably be this game's last case.

"This reminds me of a puzzle! Where has my son hidden the bodies?"

# ¿ Aug 28, 2015 01:05

Bruceski: Aug 21, 2007; The tools of a hero mean nothing without a solid core.

I think Mariana is the killer. Who needs to fake a call to the front desk when you can just lie about it and sound the alarm once you have the props set up?

Also, to get meta, her name is "marionettist."

# ¿ Aug 29, 2015 23:52

Bruceski: Aug 21, 2007; The tools of a hero mean nothing without a solid core.

anilEhilated posted:

Did anyone else but Mariana hear the phone? Because that's suspicious as hell.

Granted, that's the first place my mind went because I *just* watched an episode of Poirot where a guy pulled the "gosh detective, I'm on the phone with X and she's being murdered right now! I couldn't possibly be a suspect."

# ¿ Aug 30, 2015 10:02

Bruceski: Aug 21, 2007; The tools of a hero mean nothing without a solid core.

ponzicar posted:

When I played this game, I noticed a large number of people complaining about this game's bad grammar on the Google Play store, because they were too stupid to realize that the characters are speaking with English accents.

My dad's an immigrant so I grew up bilingual, English and American. Pain in the arse on spelling tests, I never understood why nobody else was spelling armour with a u.

# ¿ Aug 31, 2015 06:30

Bruceski: Aug 21, 2007; The tools of a hero mean nothing without a solid core.

Seems like one of those times when we have so much evidence that it's hard to know which they're looking for. The wire showing a need to fake posession? The prints-wiped axe? These parts always mess me up in Phoenix Wright games, I tend to jump too many steps ahead in my logic.

# ¿ Sep 6, 2015 00:45

Bruceski: Aug 21, 2007; The tools of a hero mean nothing without a solid core.

Hmm, it's muddy. Do we know when it rained?

# ¿ Sep 7, 2015 22:59

Bruceski: Aug 21, 2007; The tools of a hero mean nothing without a solid core.

What is life like in this world? "This is my roommate, Pois o'Nerr. Don't worry, we're pretty sure it won't happen for another ten years and in the meantime he's a great cook."

# ¿ Sep 20, 2015 13:08

Bruceski: Aug 21, 2007; The tools of a hero mean nothing without a solid core.

Only Dread's fingerprints were found on the cup, not the tea lady's?

# ¿ Oct 17, 2015 19:44

Bruceski: Aug 21, 2007; The tools of a hero mean nothing without a solid core.

They do strange things in England, you don't see that anywhere else. *puts mayo on his french fries*

# ¿ Oct 26, 2015 04:04

Bruceski: Aug 21, 2007; The tools of a hero mean nothing without a solid core.

The tea was misdirection, the poison was in the fax paper and absorbed through his fingers.

# ¿ Oct 26, 2015 09:00

Bruceski: Aug 21, 2007; The tools of a hero mean nothing without a solid core.

Glazius posted:

Are we... going to get a second crime scene simulation for how the tea lady died? Or are we somehow going to sleuth that one out through examining this scene?

I can never quite tell where this game is going.

Case closed. On to the next one.

# ¿ Oct 31, 2015 01:13

Bruceski: Aug 21, 2007; The tools of a hero mean nothing without a solid core.

Tax Refund posted:

Gotcha now! I don't know if we're going to be required to produce evidence that Mr. de Bonair was lying, but he just proved that he saw the perfume bottle before it was smashed to unrecognizable bits. And therefore, was the murderer. (That's circumstantial enough that it wouldn't hold up in any real court, but it's probably good enough for this game.)

Yeah, that's the Columbo moment.

# ¿ Nov 14, 2015 18:43

Bruceski: Aug 21, 2007; The tools of a hero mean nothing without a solid core.

I hope it closes with a Poirot finisher.

"And finally, we know it was you because your fingerprints were found on the poison bottle."
"That's impossible! I wore--"
"You wore gloves, monsieur."

# ¿ Nov 17, 2015 06:14

Bruceski: Aug 21, 2007; The tools of a hero mean nothing without a solid core.

Stupid question (that we need to wait for the story to answer), are the pieces all from the same puzzle? I assume SOMEBODY tried to put them together.

# ¿ Dec 3, 2015 01:13

Bruceski: Aug 21, 2007; The tools of a hero mean nothing without a solid core.

fractalairduct posted:

Unless the key to this case is the order the murders happened in, in which case it might be deliberately misleading.

Well the last victim (by case order) had his neck broken before burning, which suggests to me that the drug started to wear off and he put up some fight. That would imply he was the last victim.

I'm on the wrong device to go digging through the evidence but that gives me an odd idea. Is there any props to suggest a fifth murder was planned where the victim could have awoken and fled?

# ¿ Dec 3, 2015 10:37

Bruceski: Aug 21, 2007; The tools of a hero mean nothing without a solid core.

Three drugged glasses used by Sassina, Boyle and Fassi. Three plates on the table. The phone used to call a nearby box. The cap that goes with undrugged wine, a reciept for a bottle of wine but two in the room... here's my theory.

Agonni orders takeout for his goons, making sure to include red wine. He swaps the wine for drugged wine he brought, putting them to sleep. Then he calls an accomplice from outside, probably a woman given the pearls. They set up the Jigsaw murders, share a glass of undrugged wine, and then she betrays Agonni, strangling him and getting her necklace broken in the struggle. She burns him for the fourth murder, puts the undrugged wine in the takeaway box (grabbing the wrong cap in the process) and either hides or somehow leaves. Maybe under the bed?

# ¿ Dec 3, 2015 10:58

Bruceski: Aug 21, 2007; The tools of a hero mean nothing without a solid core.

Hobgoblin2099 posted:

This is a very peculiar case. I'm very interested to know the why.

There were photos of the boss's family and we still have that call to a nearby phone booth. Possibly hostages?

# ¿ Dec 8, 2015 02:17

Bruceski: Aug 21, 2007; The tools of a hero mean nothing without a solid core.

Clearly the last two victims are Alfendi and Lucy.

# ¿ Dec 24, 2015 23:10

Bruceski: Aug 21, 2007; The tools of a hero mean nothing without a solid core.

Mzbundifund posted:

What's wrong with the prof. in this scene? Is he motion sick? Regretting that he didn't order one of those for himself?

I don't think he likes people. I get the same way in crowds.

# ¿ Dec 29, 2015 22:23

Bruceski: Aug 21, 2007; The tools of a hero mean nothing without a solid core.

The bathroom is behind a secret door? Is this place owned by Umbrella Corp?

# ¿ Jan 1, 2016 00:57

Bruceski: Aug 21, 2007; The tools of a hero mean nothing without a solid core.

Keelan Makepeace is dead while Dieane Makepease seeks revenge? That seems backwards.

# ¿ Jan 7, 2016 23:38

Bruceski: Aug 21, 2007; The tools of a hero mean nothing without a solid core.

Now hold on, did Miss Marple ever have an "it were all of 'em" mystery? Poirot did the Orient Express.

# ¿ Jan 18, 2016 04:11

Bruceski: Aug 21, 2007; The tools of a hero mean nothing without a solid core.

Is this something where we can pick the right culprit, or does it need us to step through each one as Lucy figured it out?

# ¿ Jan 25, 2016 08:55

Bruceski: Aug 21, 2007; The tools of a hero mean nothing without a solid core.

Delacroix posted:

Or perhaps he already lost his case and Alfiendi showed up to allegedly kill Keelan as an outcome of the investigation.

I think it's something simpler, like "if he'd been honest my dad would have just been arrested instead of killed."

# ¿ Jan 29, 2016 01:47

Bruceski: Aug 21, 2007; The tools of a hero mean nothing without a solid core.

Looking like that? I certainly hope so.

anilEhilated posted:

I still think the game's name has to come into play somewhere.

Alfendi and Alfiendi.

# ¿ Feb 6, 2016 21:09

Bruceski: Aug 21, 2007; The tools of a hero mean nothing without a solid core.

Hobgoblin2099 posted:

Well, this is certainly taking a turn for the interesti-

Commissioner Barton?

I believe it.

# ¿ Feb 9, 2016 21:34

Bruceski: Aug 21, 2007; The tools of a hero mean nothing without a solid core.

Mraagvpeine posted:

Wait, who was Barton again?

Sidekick constable from the Layton games. Liked sandwiches, if I recall.

# ¿ Feb 9, 2016 21:35

Bruceski: Aug 21, 2007; The tools of a hero mean nothing without a solid core.

Robindaybird posted:

Since... it kind of reflects poorly on Hershel that Alfendi turned out to be a corrupt sadist with a fixation on violent crime.

Fits with some of the rest of his family though.

# ¿ Feb 18, 2016 21:52

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 10:27

Bruceski: Aug 21, 2007; The tools of a hero mean nothing without a solid core.

If Hilda's view were flipped, that means not only that she would see the wound on the wrong side, but that she would see Justin on the East tower when he was really on the West. But that would mean the victims were on the East tower. Is there something on that side he could have set up as a decoy of Makepeace and Layton? Given the storm, "shot them early" does not seem like it would be difficult to hide.

# ¿ Mar 3, 2016 02:09

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